Often suffering is the trigger, or a spiritual teaching, or both. Call it readiness, or grace. This is the beginning of the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Authentic human interactions become impossible when you lose yourself in a role. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me? — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A simple but radical spiritual practice is to accept whatever arises in the Now, within and without. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To be conscious of Being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create? — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
That is the challenge of a spiritual teacher: not to take on board the projections of specialness people have. This is especially… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For a relationship to deepen, at some point the spiritual dimension needs to come in. You don't even need to be fully… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The key is to be in a state of permanent connectedness with your inner body - to feel it at all times.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A true spiritual teacher does not have anything to teach in the conventional sense of the word, does not have anything to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If a fish is born in your aquarium and you call him John, write out a birth certificate, tell him about his… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Choice implies consciousness - a high degree of consciousness. Without it, you have no choice. Choice begins the moment you disidentify from… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The present moment has always been available to spiritual seekers, but as long as you are seeking you are not available to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Inner resistance to whatever arises in the present moment pulls you back into unconsciousness. Inner resistance is some form of negativity, complaining,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Spiritual awakening - is becoming awake to the aliveness of this moment. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Each person's life – each lifeform, in fact – represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you have at this moment. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Thought alone cannot recognize spiritual truths no matter how highly developed thought is. It's impossible. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
...whenever there is inspiration...and enthusiasm...there is a creative empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is capable of. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The voice in the head that never stops speaking becomes a civilization that is obsessed with form and therefore knows nothing of the most… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
“A powerful spiritual practice is consciously to allow the diminishment of ego when it happens without attempting to restore it. I recommend that you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
To become aware of the subtlety of nature you need to be alert. The moment you become alert you become still... thinking subsides. That… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
“War is a mind-set, and all action that comes out of such a mind-set will either strengthen the enemy, the perceived evil, or, if… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
It is very hard to tell when I started to be a spiritual teacher. There was a time when occasionally somebody would come and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
“Jeste li zabrinuti? Razmišljate li često: »Što bi bilo da sam...?« To znači da ste se poistovjetili s umom, koji se projicira u neku… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
